Hi Tom,
On 22 November 2017 at 09:57, Tom Ehlert wrote:
> as a side note: if gcc has no far pointers, its usability as a 16 bit
> compiler is serious limited.
There is one now, finally, since T.K. Chia started working on the IA16
port in June.
https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16/
I managed to co
I did have to deal with those as a teenager in the early nineties, but
never heard of ZULIA.
There are several others:
https://archive.org/details/HGCIBM202
and a whole page about them
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php
I also hacked on one myself but I don't know if
CGA 320x200 was displayed on 640x300, you'd see for instance amber,
"brown", and black.
The "brown" just looked like low intensity amber, as every other pixel
was displayed, like
this for palette 0 (black/green/red/yellow)
x x x -> green looks like brown
x x x-> red also looks like brown, bu
